Could it be?, Stealth are you coming back home

[Thebabyboom]

I think any stealth game fanatic sort of declared the genre dead after games like assassins creed and splinter cell convictions switched out well thought tactics and strategies for what they called Agro-stealth ugh makes me sick just saying it. Well rejoice children i for one think it's coming back with games like Deus ex human revolution and the new game dishonored and obviously the announced Thief 4 and splinter cell 6 (which i pray from the leak screen shots that its going back to the style of the original trilogy and we can all pretend that double agent and convictions where just a parallel universe to show what could happen) giving us that well deserved sneaky borderline voyeuristic goodness we've been asking for. YA BUNCH OF SICKOS

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

I think the big problem the Stealth genre is facing is that it is a hard genre to get good player satisfaction out of. Most of the time, the gratification in stealth-games comes either from the nerve-wracking tension of guards walking just past you or trying to hide a body in time or from finding a clever way to beat the "stealth puzzle" of patrol routes, open spaces etc. The latter in particular requires that you have a pretty high difficulty going, since it isn't very satisfying to beat two guards who are standing ten meters apart staring at a wall.

In comparsion, shooters just needs to trow more enemies at you (or less to scale down difficulty) to increase gratification. Add in a few railroaded cinematic scenes and you are set. Stealth gameplay requires lots more of fine tuning and today the player probably wants some fancy tools to use too (temporary cloak, decoys etc.) which also requires an involved design process.

Simply put: Stealth games might be returning slowly. But they are also hard to do well, which is what will continue to limit the genre. In today's high budget enviroment, it is safer to put your bets down on another CoD or GoW clone than it is too branch out into a relatively fringe genre.

 

[CleverNickname]

splinter cell 6 (which i pray from the leak screen shots that its going back to the style of the original trilogy and we can all pretend that double agent and convictions where just a parallel universe to show what could happen)

I like the way you think.

Deus Ex HR was the best Splinter Cell game since Chaos Theory.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

I'd like to see stealth games make a comeback, but I don't think Assassin's Creed ever marketed itself as a 'stealth' game in the same sense, more a hack 'n slasher with stealth and RPG elements.

 

[Hamish Durie]

along with that list is a new Sly game

 

[Justice4L]

You mean I will be able to complete a level of splinter cell without killing anyone again? THANK YOU UBISOFT!

 

[GiantRaven]

Don't forget - new Hitman

 

[Project_Omega]

I think any stealth game fanatic sort of declared the genre dead after games like assassins creed and splinter cell convictions switched out well thought tactics and strategies for what they called Agro-stealth ugh makes me sick just saying it. Well rejoice children i for one think it's coming back with games like Deus ex human revolution and the new game dishonored and obviously the announced Thief 4 and splinter cell 6 (which i pray from the leak screen shots that its going back to the style of the original trilogy and we can all pretend that double agent and convictions where just a parallel universe to show what could happen) giving us that well deserved sneaky borderline voyeuristic goodness we've been asking for. YA BUNCH OF SICKOS

Try the Penumbra series or the later game Amnesia, both of these basically MAKE you stealth and hide in the darkness while avoiding monsters. Best stealth games ever made.

Deus Ex : HR ?

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[CleverNickname]

stealth and hiding aren't the same thing